Up-To-Date Apple Rumors!

June 14th, 2011 by Christen

The iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

The iOS and iPhone 5 rumors have been coming in at a whirlwind clip lately, and it can be a Sisyphean task tYrying to keep up with it all. So here’s a quick roundup of everything that might have slipped under your radar.

The Latest

First, the juicy stuff: it looks like Apple is in the final testing phase of the next iPhone, and we have slightly harder confirmation that it willlaunch in September. The same report notes that, at least at first, Verizon won’t jump on the Facetime-on-3G train, which AT&T seems ready to embrace. They do note that 3G isn’t the same as 4G, which could mean nothing—or a whole lot.

iPhone 5 Hardware Rumors

iPhone hardware rumors are springing up faster than Congressional Twitter scandals right now. The biggest, and one of the bigger stretches source-wise, is that the iPhone 5 will, in fact feature a 4G LTE network. That gem came from a United Arab Emirate’s wireless operator jumping the gun on an advertising campaign. We’re still pretty sure they’re full of it especially with more iPhone 4S rumorsspringing up, this time that it will skip the SIM card. The 4S is the name bloggers have given the less-than-revolutionary upgrade for this generation of iPhone, and dropping the SIM card will save Apple some space inside the handset, at the expense of some security. The same rumor has a “major new” iPhone being released in 2012.

A bit more about cameras: there’s a bit of confusion about what’s going on with the iPhone 5’s. After competing rumors sprang up earlier in the year, it now looks like Omnivision and Sony will both supply Apple with 8MP cameras. And whoever is providing the cameras, we’ve seen some case mockups that suggest the flash will be offset, and the screen will be edge-to-edge—and possibly curved.